Anti-gold rules force consumers to buy silver instead, imports double from 2012… DEMAND to buy silver amongst Indian households has pushed the country’s imports of the precious metal to twice last year’s level and may set a record in 2013, according to industry experts. Between January and September, silver imports to India totaled more than 4,000 tonnes, already beating full-year 2012 says the Thomson Reuters GFMS consultancy. The world’s largest end-consumer of silver bullion as well as gold, India’s current record demand to buy silver came at just over 5,000 tonnes in 2008. That figure equals some 16% of total global demand, put around 30,000 tonnes per year. India’s demand to buy gold, also the world leader, has been nearer 25%. But after July and August this year saw silver imports of 1,000 tonnes as gold imports fell to zero, “India could import 6,000 tonnes of silver this year,” reckons a special report from Japanese trading house Mitsui, “almost 1,000 tonnes more than the record imports seen in 2008.” “There has been a massive improvement in silver imports,” agrees Bombay Bullion Association director Harmesh Arora, speaking to Reuters today, “and we will continue to see more. “Investors are taking advantage of lower prices,” says Arora, “and the lack of restrictions on silver imports as of now.” Noting the surge in demand to buy silver as prices fell steeply in 2011 from near all-time highs, “The response of Indian consumers to price weakness in silver can be spectacular,” says Mitsui strategist David Jollie. Even though silver cannot directly replace gold in many areas of India’s cultural and religious culture, he adds, “The massive price decline for silver in April 2013 encouraged further buying.” Looking at the Indian government’s aggressive anti-gold measures, “I don’t think we will see any policy changes in silver,” says Rajesh Khosla, managing director with refiner MMTC PAMP – part-owned by the government. “There is less gold available, so rural people will gradually move to silver. It will be a more of a default option than a conscious choice,” he believes. India’s Demand to Buy Silver Doubles on Gold Ban, Price...

By Alasdair Macleod There are two indisputable economic facts to bear in mind. The first is that GDP is simply a money-total of economic transactions, and a central bank fosters an increase in GDP by making available more money and therefore bank credit to inflate this number. This is not the same as genuine economic progress, which is what consumers desire and entrepreneurs provide in an unfettered market with reliable money. The second fact is that newly issued money is not absorbed into an economy evenly: it has to be handed to someone first, like a bank or government department, who in turn passes it on to someone else through their dealings and so on, step by step until it is finally dispersed. As new money enters the economy, it naturally drives up the prices of goods bought with it. This means that someone seeking to buy a similar product without the benefit of new money finds it is more expensive, or put more correctly the purchasing power of his wages and savings has fallen relative to that product. Therefore, the new money benefits those that first obtain it at the expense of everyone else. Obviously, if large amounts of new money are being mobilised by a central bank, as is the case today, the transfer of wealth from those who receive the money later to those who get it early will be correspondingly greater. Now let’s look at today’s monetary environment in the United States. The wealth-transfer effect is not being adequately recorded, because official inflation statistics do not capture the real increase in consumer prices. The difference between official figures and a truer estimate of US inflation is illustrated by John Williams of Shadowstats.com, who estimates it to be 7% higher than the official rate at roughly 9%, using the government’s computation methodology prior to 1980. Simplistically and assuming no wage inflation, this approximates to the current rate of wealth transfer from the majority of people to those that first receive the new money from the central bank. The Fed is busy financing most of the Government’s borrowing. The newly-issued money in Government’s hands is distributed widely, and maintains prices of most basic goods and services at a higher level than they would otherwise be. However, in providing this funding, the Fed creates excess reserves on its own balance sheet, and it is this money we are considering.The reserves on the Fed’s balance sheet are actually deposits, the assets of commercial banks and other domestic and foreign depository institutions that use the Fed as a bank, in the same way the rest of us have bank deposits...

Flying by Sight Versus Instruments “VFR”Visual Flight rules “IFR” Instrument Flight Rules As sponsor of a GATA presentation in Auckland by the chairman- Chris Powell over the weekend, I had the pleasure of spending time and picking his brain on many subjects. High on the list was the current correction in gold and its seeming long and sustained period of flat or lower prices. There are many measures to gauge the market but one of the best is outright sentiment and he said that for every 100 people that would have had contact with him in times past, the number is more like 20 now. If I take that same sentiment gauge and cross it over to the exploration/ junior mining sector and even the mid-tier and senior one you get a really sad story. Here is what a professional capitulation looks like from a seasoned mining writer that makes his living selling information 1/ convince me that the resource sector recovery expected this fall is no longer valid. Even the strongest companies are now weakening again and I think this is a strong indica­tion that our market troubles will continue well into next year. This unfortunate chain of events leads me to believe that we should not be buying any junior mining stocks right now. 2/ Many of us, including myself, beefed up positions in companies like “%$” thinking this would be the start of getting our portfolios back on track. It hasn’t happened and I have never felt more discouraged about anything I have dealt with in my entire life. It has felt like an emotional earthquake to my soul. 3/ Even during the 2008 meltdown situation, I felt more composed and confident because I knew we would rebound, which we did within a relatively short-period of time. But this current market situa­tion has gone from bad, to worse, to intolerable with further downside very likely. 4/ I even wrote many times in the last several years that before the screaming, parabolic market in our favour would happen we may have to deal with downside volatility that would shake us to the core. But what we are experiencing now is beyond even what I thought could happen. This is a wipe-out that will basically eliminate at least another 35% of the junior mining companies that are currently still in business. This is after those who have already shut their doors. Many more are hanging by their fingernails right now. I thought by moving towards those companies with the best assets or near-term production stories that we would protect ourselves until the dust you spoke about settled. I...

“All income-generating assets are below their average yield… and most are near all-time lows.” That’s what master researcher James O’Shaughnessy told the Big Picture Conference earlier this month. He went on to say that he believes the biggest problem facing investors today is income. You see, James’ research shows that now is the toughest time in 140 years for investors trying to generate income. But he also revealed a simple solution you can easily put to work today… Jeff showed people what to do with their money during crisis conditions and how to profit in 2014. He also put together a special offer where you can get one of his research services for free. James has made a career of looking back at history to find insights into what’s happening today. In his fantastic book, What Works on Wall Street, he ran the numbers on nearly every investment idea you could dream up. (I keep a copy on my desk at all times.) And he’s built a successful money-management business that invests around $ 5 billion using strategies based on his research. Today, James’ research shows that most income investments, especially bonds, aren’t paying the kinds of yields investors need to survive. Bonds have been in a multi-decade bull market. As prices go up, yields come down. Thirty-year U.S. Treasurys only pay 3.65% as I write. And James believes they’ll be a losing proposition over time… “Long-term bonds have done very well for a very long time,” he says. “No one remembers that long bonds lost 68% after inflation from 1941-1981… but it can happen again.” You read that right… After inflation, “safe” long-term bonds lost 68% of their value from 1941-1981. Today, with high prices and low yields, we could be in store for another multi-decade bear market. James believes the best thing you can do to generate income is to avoid bonds and buy international stocks that pay dividends. Even during the greatest period in history for long-term bonds (1981-2011)… you’d have beaten them by simply owning global dividend-payers. Right now, he believes global dividend-payers are the easiest and safest way to generate income. And I’ve found an easy way to make the investment. This fund holds 100 of the best global dividend-payers. And it only holds companies that have consistently paid big dividends. Based on history, this is a winning strategy. The index IDV tracks has crushed the stock and bond markets since its creation in 1998. Over the last 15 years, this basket of global dividend-payers more than doubled the return on 30-year Treasurys. And it more than tripled the return of U.S. stocks. Importantly, this fund...

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